Catholic Homilies By Fr Linus Clovis

St. Thomas Aquinas who is known for his wisdom but above all for his clarity of thought, says “what is first thought of is the last thing that is executed”. If you want to do something, you have to make preparations for it. For example, Our Lord speaking in the Gospels tells us, “Which one of you wanting to build a tower would not first sit down, calculate how much it would cost and then begin to build”, so the first thought is to build a tower, the last thing you do is actually build it. Equally we think of the building of the temple in Jerusalem, where David wanted to build the temple. However because his hands had shed so much blood, God did not allow him to build the temple but rather his son Solomon. So what did David do, he made the preparations; he got the gold, the silver the bronze, the metals, the lead, the wood, the stone and the craftsmen. He had them all ready. Then the building of the temple was that of Solomon. The end was a temple, glorious to be seen from the description given to it b